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My students come into 5th grade art having very little experience with art. In fact, we do not have any certified art teachers at the elementary level, and they have very little exposure to the arts from pre-k through 4th grade. When they enter my doors I am their first experience in an actual art class. In 5th grade students only get one hour a week for one semester, making their time with me only 15-18 class periods that first year. I see all of the 5th grade students during that time. At a stage in life where students start doubting themselves and their artistic abilities, I want to empower them to try! I want them to realize that they do have potential to be creative if only they use their imagination, try their personal best and don't give up! My classroom rules reflect these ideas as two of them are to "use your imagination" and "try your personal best." We also talk about how students are not allowed to say "I can't do it!" My hope is that with this text set, I can share some of these books, videos, articles, and quotes each class to instill those ideals into my students and that when they come to me as 6th graders and see me everyday, we explore and create freely, knowing that we can do it, if only we try!

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Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire

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Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire

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Author: Amy Guglielmo and Jacqueline Tourville
Illustrator:Bridgette Barrager

This book captures one woman imagination. Mary Blair was an illustrator, designer, and animator who worked for Disney when most of the artists were men and illustrations were black and white. She thought in vivid colors!

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Author/ Illustrator: Jeanette Winter

About the life of Henri Matisse. It talks about his life and challenges, as well as offers a look into his creative process.

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By: Roald Dahl

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The articles on Newsela have 5 different "levels" that the students can read at so that they all get the same content, but it is differentiated based on the needs of the students.

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Newsela | These young creators share one trait: Curiosity

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Alana, Ryan and Alec like to learn about how things work. Alana used a laser cutter to make an acrylic heart-shaped pendant with gears that turn, Ryan constructed and programmed a robot that finds fossils and Alec used Legos to make a 3-D printer that makes things out of melted plastic.

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Ted Ed - ed.ted.com
PBS.org
YouTube.com
CBS - Youtube
PINTEREST
Google Images
Goodreads
Amazon
Newsela.com

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Radient Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Radient Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Author/ Illustrator: Javaka Steptoe

"Radiant Child" addresses the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat and his college style art that made him famous. It talks about how he saw art everywhere, and that art doesn't have to be perfect, use your imagination and unlock your own creativity!

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Author: Jonah Winter
Illustrator: Ana Juan

Frida Kahlo faced many challenges during her life from polio, a terrible bus accident, pain, and depression. Through it all she used those life experiences to create art. She never gave up and used those life experiences as sources for her creativity.

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Author: Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
Illustrator: Robert Andrew Parker
When people see work by Jackson Pollock, they always say "I can do that, why is he so famous for that." This books gives insight into the way he worked. It has comments made by Pollock, and people who knew him best.

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Author: Jen Bryant
Illustrator: Bethanne Andersen

Following the life of Georgia O'Keefe, this book shares how Georgia was inspired by what was around her, using her imagination and creativity these simple everyday objects became her inspiration for the paintings she became famous for.

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A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin

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A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin

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The story is about Horace Pippin's love for making art. Throughout the book people are constantly saying "Make a picture for us Horace." That is what he did until life obstacles got in the way, but he still continued to follow his passion. During WWI he was shot in his arm and lost his ability to draw. He taught himself how to create again, using his other hand for support. This story is great for students to hear about how even though things may seem to be getting in the way of following your dreams, your dreams are still possible to achieve. There is plenty of backmater in the book that supports the history of the story and discusses how the author and illustrator researched the information. This is a great message to KEEP TRYING!

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Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery

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Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery

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Author: Sandra Neil Wallace
Illustrator: Bryan Collier

This book would be great to share with students about ow hey can follow their dreams, even when its not something that others expect out of them. I think this book is great for the boys to see that art is just for girls and they too can become great artists! The book is about the life of Ernie Barnes and how everyone wanted him to be this great football player, because the way that he was built, even though it wasn't anything he was interested in. He ended up getting into football because it helped his family out. He ended up drawing what he saw on the sidelines. Two great quotes from his art teacher in the book are that "art is all around you" and "use what you see."

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Author: Barb Rosenstock
Illustrator: Mary Grandpre

The story is about Kandinsky and how he "heard" the swirls and dashes of his paintings. When others wanted him to paint "proper images, until he finally gave in and tried to live the life that everyone else wanted for him. that was until he could no longer ignore the sounds and colors that followed him everywhere. He began to make his art again saying that "Art should make you feel." Kandinsky was one of the first abstract artists and this book is all about creativity!

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Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing

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Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing

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Author: Kay A. Haring
Illustrator: Robert Neubecker

"The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing" was written by Keith Haring's sister and tells the story about how Keith became an artist trying to make the world a better place. No matter what happened in his life he continued to draw. The book intertwines illustrations by Robert Neubecker with artwork created by Keith Haring.

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Author: Philip C. Stead

This story is about an author who goes on a walk in his neighborhood. His thoughts transform into other thoughts and he begins to gather all of these ideas. The message of the book is that "ideas are all around, you just have to know what to do with them."

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Author/ Illustrator: Ashley Spires

About a girl who wants to make the most magnificent thing. She tries, but what she has in her mind is not working out how she wanted it to be. She wants to quit, and gets angry. She sees all of the things that didn't work out in a new way and she collects bits of each of the wrong things that were "right" and she is able to finish her most magnificent thing. This book teaches students that its okay to be wrong, and to keeping pushing on.

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The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection

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The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection

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Author: Colby Sharp

The book is a collection of forty authors and illustrators that provide story starters for each other. The starters where in the form of poems, photos, drawings, etc. They used the starters as inspiration to create something out of it. They also each created a starter other own for others to complete. This would be an interesting challenge to complete with students, giving them a choice of what starter they would want to use and then building off of it in anyway they see fit.

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Author/ Illustrator: Tom Lichtenheld

Bridget loves art, but she thinks that she is only a great artist while wearing her beret. She loses her beret and thinks that she has lost her ability to draw. She tries to find other hats to replace the beret to help her with her art again. She learns that the creativity is inside her, not the beret!

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Author: Andrea Beaty
Illustrator: David Roberts

This book is about a girl who see inspiration around her withe eryday objects. She works on her inventions but is afraid of failure. Her great-great- aunt helps her to see that you learn from your failures, celebrate them instead of hiding them away. I think this book is perfect for 5th graders to see that its ok that not all things work out, those failures may lead to greater things! This book book be good to share with the video clip from "Meet the Robinson's."

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Author: Kobi Yamada
Illustrator: Mae Besom

What do you do with an idea is a book that follows the process of getting an idea and how it transform not only you, but the world! This book would be good for students to see how something they think of can become bigger than themselves!

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Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing -- which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge.

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Learn more about Every Beating Second, Echelman's installation at the San Francisco airport. In particular, watch the video to see how airport visitors are reacting to the sculpture. Then, create a short story or script that's set in the airport terminal. Include in your writing three different encounters between people (passengers, workers, etc.) under the sculpture during the course of one day. Sculpture, Sculpting Urban Airspace: Janet Echelman (Sept 2011) YouTube: Lace Making in Croatia See all of the TED-Ed Lessons about art. Why create? Artists and designers share their work, their process and their vision in these deeply personal -- and often hilarious -- talks. Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.

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Taking imagination seriously - Janet Echelman

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Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing -- which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity.

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Your brain is full of ideas just waiting to be realized.

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The Neuroscience of Creativity | BrainCraft

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Your brain uses different pathways to communicate, forming complex networks in your brain.

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A reading of the book "Ish" by Peter H. Reynolds

*This video could be used as an accommodation for students with special needs.

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CBS clip: This is about artist, Chuck Close, who over came many obstacles and never gave up on his dreams. This video is great to show students with learning disabilities and those with physical limitations, that you can do anything! This clip is the artist addressing his 14 year old self.

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This clip talks about how you learn from failure. It's okay to fail at times